Hear your train a comin’

Use of public transport has declined since the COVID pandemic with more people working from home, so will Queensland’s reduction of fares to just 50 cents for the next six-months help boost passenger numbers?

Transport free-for-all?

Fares only cover a quarter of the cost of public transport, so would removing fares for everyone make sense in terms of cutting traffic jams and improving social, as well as physical, mobility?

Rethinking public transport after COVID-19

Public transport is the most efficient way to move large numbers of people about the city but the idea of sharing confined public spaces for long periods of time will play heavily on the minds of a public learning to maintain physical distance.

A driverless future? Don’t believe the hype

Old fashioned public transport, rather than new business models such as uber or new technology in the form of driverless cars, will remain the backbone of urban mass transport for the foreseeable future.